After Dark Fashions Australia is committed to providing you with the highest levels of customer service. This includes protecting your privacy. From 21 December 2001, we will be bound by new sections of the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988, which set out a number of principles concerning the protection of your personal information.

This statement, called "Protecting Your Privacy Online", sets out important information about privacy protections which we extend to your personal information. It relates to personal information that you provide to us through our website (eg when you purchase products online).

How we collect personal information

After Dark Fashions Australia collects personal information in a number of ways, including:

• directly from you, such as when you enter your personal details on our websites (eg during purchasing products online), when you provide information by phone or in documents such as an application form;
• from third parties such as credit reporting agencies;
• from publicly available sources of information or;
• from the organisations identified below under "When we disclose your personal information".

How we use your personal information

Your personal information may be used to:

• identify you and to assist you to purchase from our website;
• conduct appropriate checks for credit-worthiness and for fraud;
• develop our products and website.

Your personal information is also collected to promote and market to you other services which we consider may be of interest to you. Before we do so, we will provide you with an opportunity to give us permission to send you marketing or promotional material (such as promotional email offers), via an opt-in mechanism. That is, we will send you such material only if you elect to receive it or if it is provided to you in response to your request. You may also notify us at any time that you do not wish to receive marketing or promotional material by contacting us via email.

Personal information collected from our websites

The types of personal information we collect from you will depend on how you use our web site. Such information may include your name, date of birth, gender, current address, telephone/mobile phone number, email address and credit card details. If you choose not to provide personal information, we may not be able to provide you with the products you require, or the level of service on which we pride ourselves.

Other information

Our website records other information as well. This information is used to improve the structure and performance of our site to provide users with an improved service. Whenever a page is requested from our web server, we record the time, date and URL of the request, along with information on the browser software that is being used.

When we disclose your personal information

For the purposes set out above (under “How we use your personal information”) we may disclose your personal information to organisations outside After Dark Fashions Australia. Where appropriate, these disclosures are subject to privacy and confidentiality protections. The organisations to which we usually disclose information include:

• credit-reporting and fraud-checking agencies;
• Credit providers for credit related purposes such as creditworthiness, credit rating, credit provision and financing;
• our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers;
• government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law.

You can access your personal information

You have a right to access your personal information, subject to some exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know by sending us an email. You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons. After Dark Fashions Australia reserves the right to charge a fee for searching for and providing access to your information.

Security of your information

Credit card information is among the most important data we collect. After Dark Fashions Australia uses secure servers to minimise the risk of unauthorised use of such information. Credit card information that is transmitted via our secure servers is encrypted in accordance with the highest standards over the EFTPOS network. For obvious reasons, please do not send credit card information through unsecured email.

What else you should know about privacy

Remember to close your browser when you have finished your user session. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe. You as an individual are responsible for the security of and access to your own computer.

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information over the Internet (for example: in discussion forums, via email, or in chat sites) that this information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information in publicly accessible online forums, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your username and passwords and any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are using the Internet and our websites.